Why Did Twitter Cancel This Veteran Journalist?
Social media censorship is threatening our press freedoms, the First Amendment, and at the horizon what remains of our democratic polity.
John Kiriakou: The Triumph of “Bloody Gina,” the CIA’s Torture Queen
Court filing reveals CIA director Gina Haspel participated directly in the spy agency’s black site illegal torture program while fellow officer Kiriakou was imprisoned for exposing it.
John Kiriakou: The Steele Dossier and Lying to the FBI — Not Guilty as Charged
The Steele Dossier was a pack of lies, but the Clinton campaign attorney who promoted it to the FBI didn’t lie.
Corporate Media Hypocrisy Revealed in Buffalo Shooting Coverage
The corporate media's contradictions in covering nazism exposed in Buffalo shooting coverage.
ScheerPost Is Finalist for 8 SoCal Journalism Awards, Including Best News Website
The site is honored to announce our editor in chief, columnist, cartoonist and entire editorial team are finalists for several Southern California Journalism Awards.
John Kiriakou: Biden’s Orwellian ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ and Other Assaults on Free Press
From the announcement of the Biden Administration's new “Disinformation Governance Board" to NewsGuard's "Disinformation Fingerprints" project, free speech is under attack in the U.S.
Hedges: Jesus, Endless War, and the Rise of American Fascism
The Democratic Party is hoping to thwart an election rout by running against the expected Supreme Court decision on abortion. This is depressingly all that is left of its political…
Rats from Hell: Notes from a Federal Weed Trial
As weed remains illegal at the federal level, the Maryland federal district attorney’s office continues to be a hardliner in terms of Drug War prosecutions.
“Can’t We All Just Get Along”: Anniversary of 1992 LA Riots
Mike Zacchino reflects on the 1992 Los Angeles riots, police brutality, and white privilege on the thirty year anniversary of King's famous speech.
Hedges: Alice Walker and the Price of Conscience
Alice Walker was disinvited to the Bay Area Book Festival after Zionist groups threatened to carry out protests. The public and presenters are complicit in her blacklisting if they attend.
John Kiriakou on Abu Zubaydah and Unethical CIA Practices
As negotiations for Abu Zubaydah resumed this week, the CIA agent who captured him highlights the unethical and illegal issues of the arrangement.
Beware of the Fact-Checkers
A case study in how allegedly neutral analysts hired by publications or social media can effectively cancel good-faith questions and opinions because they challenge dominant narratives.
Hedges: On Being Disappeared
The entire archive of six years of my show On Contact has been removed by YouTube.
Dan Siegel on Banning the Constitution
As government officials crusade to ban books, we must evaluate what from decisions by the United States Supreme Court must be erased from our history books as well.
Hedges: Assange Affirms the Existence of Another Kind of Human Nature
Beyond his great public service with WikiLeaks, it is his unwillingness to surrender his integrity and dignity that is key to understanding why the powers that be continue to crucify…